These status checker things are interesting. Does everyone have their seat deposit line filled out in their Chicago "fees" area? I noticed I have one below the line for the admissions fee. Then on Harvard's the numbers are all wrong. I have a line only for the application fee and it says $85 due $0 paid, but I def had to pay to submit on LSAC.

It seems like they are all the same, but they can choose what to display. It throws me off how the information is wrong though.

bball1997 wrote:Woah, seriously reconsidering this whole not ED'ing thing. Does anyone think those numbers will come down at all next cycle? I know there have been a few discussions on TLS about fewer LSAT takers.

The LSAT numbers didn't change much from last year to this year, so I doubt they'll be that different this cycle either.

bball1997 wrote:Woah, seriously reconsidering this whole not ED'ing thing. Does anyone think those numbers will come down at all next cycle? I know there have been a few discussions on TLS about fewer LSAT takers.

LSAT median isn't the problem.

Rubenstein money (20 full scholarships per year) has allowed them to steal high GPA candidates from HYS. They don't appear intent on raising the LSAT numbers, even letting the 25th go down to 167. When bildungsroman got in off the waitlist I figured they just needed more reverse-splitters, but it appears that's all they were going for the whole time.

bball1997 wrote:Woah, seriously reconsidering this whole not ED'ing thing. Does anyone think those numbers will come down at all next cycle? I know there have been a few discussions on TLS about fewer LSAT takers.

The LSAT numbers didn't change much from last year to this year, so I doubt they'll be that different this cycle either.

Expect the LSAT median to stay the same or increase one point and the GPA median to stay the same next year. With the NU debacle, the lower end LSATers with high gpas are going to get sucked away because of the ED process.

bball1997 wrote:Woah, seriously reconsidering this whole not ED'ing thing. Does anyone think those numbers will come down at all next cycle? I know there have been a few discussions on TLS about fewer LSAT takers.

LSAT median isn't the problem.

Rubenstein money (20 full scholarships per year) has allowed them to steal high GPA candidates from HYS. They don't appear intent on raising the LSAT numbers, even letting the 25th go down to 167. When bildungsroman got in off the waitlist I figured they just needed more reverse-splitters, but it appears that's all they were going for the whole time.

25th percentile GPA up from 3.59 to 3.71. Nuts.

As long as they want to keep LSAT scores constant though, there will still be fewer people with high LSAT and GPA combinations. It seems to me like they will still have fewer people to choose from who would hold up their LSAT 75th percentile and a GPA in their range, even if they are going to get a higher yield because of scholarship money.

As I said though, this is definitely making me rethink my decision to not apply ED. It seems like there would be a significant difference, in terms of probability of admission, between being over both medians (and above one 75th percentile) and now being above a 75th percentile and below median.

As I said though, this is definitely making me rethink my decision to not apply ED. It seems like there would be a significant difference, in terms of probability of admission, between being over both medians (and above one 75th percentile) and now being above a 75th percentile and below median.

I wouldn't ED if my GPA was over the 25th. LSAT well over 75th doesn't seem to matter for Chicago. 180 might as well be 174.

I get the impression that sub 3.6 (3.7?) GPAs are auto-dinged without ED or URM status. Even an LSAT crushjob won't save us now.